Wednesday, March 23, 2011

VS 2008 Open Web Site takes forever!

Anyone else get this or suffer from this? I am using Vista and VS 2008 and when I goto open a Web Site it literally takes 2~3 minutes for the dialog box to show up. Once i actually select a website it's not a problem but getting to that point hangs VS really bad.

From stackoverflow
  • Make sure it is stored on your local hard drive. Storing solutions on a UNC (network path) makes Visual Studio do some weird checking. I thought this was fixed in VS 2008 SP1, I may be wrong though. Try out SP1 if you don't have it.

    Slee : it is on my local drive and I am using SP1, it's so frustrating: file > open web site > go brew coffee
  • I'm sorry that I can't offer a solution on Vista but, after experiencing the same thing, I switched back to XP and the problem went away. You might even want to do what some of our other technical folks do: stay on Vista but run XP in a virtual machine. Assuming that you have plenty of RAM, you'll notice minimal performance impact on reasonably new computers.

  • I wonder if you're hitting an issue similar to this:

    http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2006/11/27/532465.aspx

    Might be worth attaching the debugger to VS to see what it's doing, it may not be the same issue, but you should get some insight.

    HTH
    Kev

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